Pair of boots, combat, high, all ranks’, United Nations, 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards (British Forces, Lebanon), 1983 (c).

These boots were introduced soon after the Falklands War to replace black ankle boots with a directed moulded sole, which had been in service since the late 1950s. 

Designed to be more waterproof and provide more support to the ankle, they were later modified with changes to the lacing at the top of the boot and a revised sole design.

Black leather heel cap, tongue and body. Two rows of eight eyelets at centre front opening. Black vulcanised rubber sole. Tongue sewn in, bellows. Black round cord woven nylon laces. Khaki nylon mesh insole.
Associated with Lebanon (1982-1984).